Project Details
Description
Children and youth are rarely allowed to influence the development of laws and policies likely to affect their lives, however their meaningful participation in decision making is a right guaranteed by the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). To help respond to this gap and advance scholarship about opportunities and conditions for laws and policies to be informed by young people and their needs, the goal of this study is to analyze and explore the intergenerational requirements related to child rights and participation to inform legal and policy frameworks and child rights implementation.
This study is situated within the context of the SSHRC-funded multi-year International and Canadian Child Rights Partnership (ICCRP), a global multi-sectoral, interdisciplinary partnership of researchers and practitioners from Canadian and international universities, governments, NGOs, human rights institutions, and young people with lived experience. The ICCRP is divided into 4 research streams, supported by 11 case studies situated nationally or internationally aimed at 1) expanding intergenerational conceptual models, 2) investigating child and youth participation and activism, 3) developing relational practices, and 4) analyzing child rights education, all of which have direct or indirect policy implications. The goal of this study directly responds to the broader objective of the ICCRP to clarify how intergenerational relationships may be applied to transform legal and policy frameworks and advance the realization of child rights across the Global South and North.
Specifically, the objectives of this study, in line with the efforts of the ICCRP Policy Working Group (of which the research team members currently co-lead), are to document the 11 ICCRP case studies, by: 1) defining the policy landscape (direct and indirect policy implications) as it relates to the ICCRP case studies; 2) exploring intergenerational practices connected to policy-making and implementation ; 3) supporting knowledge building and sharing; and 4) identifying relational and situational practices that can stimulate public policies that are reflective of children’s rights and promote the implementation of the UNCRC.
This study is situated within the context of the SSHRC-funded multi-year International and Canadian Child Rights Partnership (ICCRP), a global multi-sectoral, interdisciplinary partnership of researchers and practitioners from Canadian and international universities, governments, NGOs, human rights institutions, and young people with lived experience. The ICCRP is divided into 4 research streams, supported by 11 case studies situated nationally or internationally aimed at 1) expanding intergenerational conceptual models, 2) investigating child and youth participation and activism, 3) developing relational practices, and 4) analyzing child rights education, all of which have direct or indirect policy implications. The goal of this study directly responds to the broader objective of the ICCRP to clarify how intergenerational relationships may be applied to transform legal and policy frameworks and advance the realization of child rights across the Global South and North.
Specifically, the objectives of this study, in line with the efforts of the ICCRP Policy Working Group (of which the research team members currently co-lead), are to document the 11 ICCRP case studies, by: 1) defining the policy landscape (direct and indirect policy implications) as it relates to the ICCRP case studies; 2) exploring intergenerational practices connected to policy-making and implementation ; 3) supporting knowledge building and sharing; and 4) identifying relational and situational practices that can stimulate public policies that are reflective of children’s rights and promote the implementation of the UNCRC.
| Status | Active |
|---|---|
| Effective start/end date | 19/06/24 → 18/06/25 |